The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine confirmed that it had invalidated the diplomatic passports of 225 people's deputies. The decision was made after people's deputies several times ignored the request to hand over documents, in accordance with the requirements of the law, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported in a commentary to Ukrayinska Pravda..

They said that in recent months, the ministry has repeatedly asked deputies to return their diplomatic passports, and also interacted with the Verkhovna Rada to organize this process..

" All our calls were ignored. Accordingly, guided by the legislation of Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine invalidated 225 diplomatic passports of people's deputies that were not returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for safekeeping in a timely manner,"

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The ministry also explained that deputies receive diplomatic passports only for official business trips.. According to the relevant regulation, approved by the decree of the President of Ukraine, the document must be returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for storage within ten days after the end of the trip.. In addition, diplomatic passports are strictly forbidden to be used for private travel..

The department, at the same time, stressed that they would "

Let us recall that earlier informed sources of the UP informed about the annulment of diplomatic passports of 225 deputies.. At that time, lists of persons whose diplomatic passports were declared invalid by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were also published.. In particular, they include the head of the Servant of the People party Olena Shulyak, faction leader David Arakhamia, Verkhovna Rada vice-speakers Oleksandr Korniyenko and Yelena Kondratyuk.